Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we'll talk about creating a staffing system that will liberate your organization.

Andy, I'm really excited about today's topic because we're going to look at three principles

that can help ensure that we not only hire the right people, but that we set them up for maximum

impact.

And I don't think there's a more important asset

that leaders manage than the people in their organization.

Yeah, in fact, when we wrote our Constitution,

our basically a legal document for an organization.

The very first thing we put in there

was simply that the people we use are as important

as the systems we choose.

The people we use are as important as the systems we choose.

And people we use, obviously we don't use people but the people we select I just wanted it to rhyme so that's why we said you so the people we use or select are as important as the systems we choose and And the reason we put that up front is,

regardless of how well written our legal documents are,

our mission, vision, purpose, all those wonderful things.

If you don't have great people, great things aren't going to happen.

At the same time, we've both seen organizations

that aren't that well organized, departments or divisions

or even entire, in our case, churches,

who they don't have extraordinary organization but they have

extraordinary people and you know everybody listening knows this if you have

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